Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. Jajawal Uranium Project

Pre-Feasibility Report for Jajawal Uranium Mining Project

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The salient features of the project include: Proposal Setting up Jajawal Uranium Project of capacity 0.135 million TPA Location of Project Villages: Jajawal and Anjani Block/Tehsil: Pratappur Dist.: Surajpur, State: Chhattisgarh. Latitude 23° 31΄ 40˝ N Longitude 83° 03΄ 12˝ E Land Ownership of Mining lease: 450 ha (mostly Protected Forest) Lease Area Ore Processing Plant: 100 ha (Protected Forest & Govt. land) Waste disposal: 100 ha (Protected Forest & Govt. land) Infrastructure: 100 ha (Private & Govt. land) Method of Work Mechanized underground working by Horizontal Cut and Fill method. Mineral Reserve Classified information under Atomic Energy Act 1962 Production capacity Proposed: 0.135 million TPA Waste Generation 0.81 million tonnes waste rock will be generated during operation and 0.03 million ton during shaft sinking. Ore processing plant will generate tailing: 135000 TPA , ETP sludge: 90 TPA and Other solid waste: 15 TPA. Waste disposal About 95 % of waste rock will be used for stowing in underground. Total 0.0705 million tonnes of waste rock will be brought to surface during shaft sinking (0.03 million ton) and operation (0.0405 million ton). About 108000 tonnes of tailing and other solid waste will be disposed in secured land fill system. Mineral Transport By Conveyor to Ore Processing Plant (~1 km haulage) Mineral Processing Ore Processing Plant adjacent to mine of 0.135 million TPA to extract uranium peroxide. The product will be dispatched to Nuclear Fuel Complex Hyderabad for further processing. Working Regime 3 shifts per day; 300 working days per year. Life of Mine 20 years Peak Water Demand Total: 1000 m3/day. Industrial: 900 m3/day, Potable: 100 m3/day Source of water 500 m3/day water demand will be met by mine discharge water and rest 500 m3/day will be taped from Janawar Nala and Mahan River Power Demand 7.5 MVA Source of power Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board Man Power 400 Explosive Consumption 0.75 tons /day

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Fuel Consumption HSD: 1.0 kl/day, LDO: 5.5 MT/day Infrastructure Land requirement, Electric power, Water, Canteen, Office buildings, Decline, New Winding and hoisting system and allied facilities Proposed Investment 70000 lakhs Production Cost Confidential Information CSR Budget 2% of net profit The proposed project will improve the supply of uranium which will provide fuel for India’s expanding nuclear energy programme. The project will generate both direct and indirect employment. The project will pave the way for peripheral development. 2. INTRODUCTION OF HEPROJECT/BACKGROUNDINFORMATION: 2.1 IDENTIFICATIONOFPROJECTANDPROJECTPROPONENT: Jajawal uranium deposit is located south of Jajawal village (23°31'40", 83°03'12") in Survey of India toposheet no. 64 M/2, Surajpur district, Chhattisgarh. The nearest airports are Ranchi (300km), Varanasi (350km), and Raipur (400km). Nearest railhead Ambikapur is 78 km away. Exploration for uranium in Surguja (now Surajpur) district started in 1969. Several sporadic radioactive anomalies were identified along shear zone in northern part of the district by air­ borne surveys during 1971­73. Ground checking and reconnaissance radiometric surveys brought to light several zones of uranium mineralisation including Jajawal in 1975. At Jajawal, uranium mineralisation is hosted by quartzo­feldspathic cataclasite exposed close to the crest of a steep hill. Topographic constraints and geological considerations led to initiation of underground exploratory mining in the central sector for quicker appraisal of its uranium potential in November 1976. Two "Adits" each of 165m long, 435 m apart were driven to intercept the ore body at a vertical impact of 80 m with the development of two levels. Magnetic survey helped in extending the shear zone from Jajawal in west to Dumhat in east through Anjani, Pakni and Devri. Exploratory drilling was initiated in January 1978, a strike length of 12 km was explored by 225 boreholes (52141m) in eight blocks (Pakni – Dumhat; Pakni; Jajawal East; Jajawal Central; Jajawal West A, B & C and Chikni ­Mahan). Exploratory drilling and mining helped in establishing sizeable reserves (in Central and Western sectors to a vertical depth of 180m). UCIL’s existing mining operations are spread over Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh. UCIL is operating six underground mines (Jaduguda, Bhatin, Bagjata, Turamdih, and Mohuldih in Jharkhand and Tummalapalle in Andhra Pradesh) and one open cast mine (Banduhurang in Jharkhand). UCIL also operates uranium ore processing plants at Jaduguda and Turamdih in Jharkhand and Tummalapalle in Andhra Pradesh to extract the yellowcake which is dispatched to Nuclear Fuel Complex, Hyderabad for further processing.

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2.2 BRIEF INFORMATION OF THEPROJECT: Jajawal uranium deposit falls in parts of protected forest block no. P­103, Huwii range, Surajpur division, Surguja Circle. Proposed mining lease area measures 450 ha in village Jajawal and Anjani which consists of protected forest. Apart from above 300 ha land will be required for setting of Ore Processing Plant, waste disposal facility and other infrastructure. Land fall under protected forest & Govt land. The production of the mines and ore processing capacity has been planned at 0.135 million TPA. 2.3 NEED FOR THE PROJECT AND ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE COUNTRY OR REGION: Govt. of India has planned to increase nuclear power generation from 6780 MWe at present to 20,000MW by the year 2020. This will lead to increase demand for uranium. In order to meet the increased demand for uranium, it is planned to increase the production by developing new mines apart from its existing mines. Proposing Jajawal Uranium project is part of this programme to meet the increasing demand for uranium for India’s nuclear power industry. India’s uranium resources are scarce, only about 0.8% of the world’s uranium deposits. India is developing the technology to utilise thorium in its nuclear power programme in a three stage programme. The first stages require uranium. India has to exploit the existing uranium deposits. The proposed project programme will increase the availability of nuclear fuel for the 1stt wo stages of the country’s nuclear power programme. The proposed project will also generate employment for local inhabitants in a predominantly tribal area. UCIL will spend part of the profits from the expanded mine for peripheral development which will benefit local villagers. 2.4 DEMAND AND SUPPLY GAP: Demand of fuel for nuclear reactor is not fully met by indigenous uranium. At present with 6780 MW of installed nuclear power capacity, the demand is not fully met by imported uranium. With addition of more nuclear power reactors, demand and supply gap of uranium is likely to increase. 2.5 IMPORT VS INDIGENOUS PRODUCTION : Refer clause 2.4 above. 2.6 EXPORT POSSIBILITIES: There is no possibility of any export of uranium concentrate from India. 2.7 DOMESTIC / EXPORT MARKET: There is no possibility of domestic and export market for uranium concentrate supply. 2.8 EMPLOYMENTGENERATION: The project will employs 400 persons consisting of executives, supervisors and workers.

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3.0 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 3.1 TYPE OF PROJECT INCLUDING INTERLINKED AND INTERDEPENDENT PROJECT The present project envisages setting up a new mine and processing plant at Jajawal, Chhattisgarh. The deposit is located in Pratappur block of Surguja. The new processing plant is proposed to be set up near to the mine. The ore from the mine will be transported to the processing plant by conveyor system. 3.2 LOCATION: Jajawal project is located in Jajawal and Anjani villages in Surajpur district of Chhattisgarh. Jajawal is approachable from Ambikapur, Surajpur district headquarters, by Varanasi highway upto Mahuapara, a distance of 65 km and thereafter by jeepable forest road of 13 km. Ambikapur is connected by highway from Bilaspur (235 km) on Mumbai ­ Howrah rail route. The nearest airports are Varanasi (U.P), Ranchi (Jharkhand) and Raipur (Chhattisgarh). 3.3 DETAILS OF ALTERNATIVES SITE Since it is a mining project which is site specific alternate site cannot be selected 3.4 SIZE AND MAGNITUDE OF OPERATION: Mining lease area will be spread over 450 ha under villages Jajawal and Anjani. Ore processing plant, secured land disposal facility and Infrastructure will be set up over an area of 300 ha. The proposed capacity of the mine and ore processing plant is 0.135 million TPA. 3.5MINE DESCRIPTION 3.5.1 Geology and Exploration Uranium mineralisation is hosted by silicified cataclasite along an intense ENE ­ WSW to E ­ W trending shear zone within CGGC along Jajawal hill. The shear trend is parallel to the anticlinal axial plane. The predominant lithounits in north are the migmatised meta­ sedimentary suite of rocks comprising quartzite, quartz muscovite schist, chlorite­biotite schist and graphitic schist against granitic gneiss and granites in the south. Further north Gondwana sedimentary cover conceals the crystallines. Jajawal hill, which hosts uranium mineralisation, forms part of the northern limb of a major doubly plunging tight antiform with axial plane having a trend of ENE­WSW. The northern limb is affected by intense shearing and faulting along a zone which trends from E­W near Pakni (i.e. on eastern side of Jajawal) to N70° E ­S70°W in Jajawal proper to N65°E­ S650 W further west towards Chikni. The shear/fault zone dips northerly at a moderate angle of about 50°­55°.

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3.5.2 Mineral Resource The ore reserve of Jajawa has been calculated at 0.020 % eU3O8 cut off to estimate the life of mine. The ore reserve and grade have not been furnished in this report as the same is restricted information as per Section 3 of Atomic Energy Act 1962. 3.5.3 Method of Mining 3.5.3.1 Background history of exploratory mine development: Exploratory underground mining was confined to Central Sector. A total of 1730.90 m mine development was carried out. Two adits, spaced 435 m apart, were driven in S20°E direction from the northern slope of Jajawal hill to intersect the lode at RL +487m (first level), which is approximately 80 m below the hill crest, where radioactive outcrops are exposed. First level drive development was completed by connecting the adits. Second level drive at RL +457m was developed by two winzes from the first level. The two winzes (W­20 & W­75) are spaced 65 m apart along the drive and are driven at 50° inclination towards N 20° W from first level.

Mine Development Meterage (m)

Aditing 356.50 Driving 828 Crosscuts 221.30

Winzes 278.20 Miscellaneous 46.50 Total 1730.90

Main lode over 450m was mined along 1st level by connecting the two adits. Hang wall load was accessed by adit­2 west drive. Attempt to access it from foot wall side through adit­1 was not possible due to the presence of kaolinized zone and fault gauge material. Therefore, main drive was developed on the hang side of the lode. Both the winzes have transgressed the lode from footwall side to hangwall as were sunk from first to second level. During second phase, three parallel footwall drives and four raises were developed. Mining operations were closed during 1994­95 field season. During the development of 1st and 2nd level drives in the hangwall lode (due to prominent strike fault on the footwall side), it was explored by 37 boreholes with aggregate drilling of 1054.70m. 3.5.3.2 Underground Mining Mine design, underground layout, mode of entry, method and sequence of stoping, drilling and blasting, required mining equipments, mine ventilation and mine de­watering will be

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Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. Jajawal Uranium Project planned and executed by the mining agency. Data on exploratory mining done by AMD may also be referred. The proposed mining method at Jajwal project is Horizontal Cut and Fill (HCF). HCF is a method to excavate one slice of ore and filling back the same by waste rock, mill tailings etc. This fill forms the platform for men and machinery to work on to excavate the next slice. The slices are taken from lower level to the upper level leaving requisite sill pillar to for the upper level. The mine works 300 days / year. The proposed Jajwal project would be a highly mechanized underground mine with entry through decline and vertical shaft. Latest technology of trackless mining system would be adopted in this mine with decline as mine entry and ramps for access in stopes. ROM and waste shall be hauled up by trackless method using LHD/LPDT combination and subsequently by skip hoisting system through shaft. The various underground equipments to be used in the mine are Drill Jumbos, LPDTs, LHDs, service Transport vehicles like Supply Truck, Service Truck, Passenger Carrier, Road Grader, Scissor Lift and Explosive Van and explosive bulk carrier etc. Other underground auxiliary equipments are pumps, auxiliary fans, jack hammer drill machine, diamond drill machine etc. The various surface equipments are winders, main mechanical ventilation fans, compressors, dozer, pay­loader, various transport vehicles, workshop equipments, D.G. set for emergency power etc. Sand stowing will be practiced to fill the voids created by excavation. The ore will be transported by conveyors to the new Process Plant. The major part of waste rock will be used for backfilling of voids in underground workings and only small portion brought to surface. Such waste rock will be dumped at designated area, acquired for the project. 3.5.3.3 Mine Design Parameters 1. Cross section of drive, drift and cross cuts will be 6.5 X 4.5 m. 2. During jumbo drilling, depth of hole will be 5.0 m to get a pull of 4.5 m. 3. Back support by rock­bolting at 2 m x 2 m grid pattern. However, this pattern varies with experience. 3.5.3.4 Mode of entry (Adit/incline/shaft/decline) Proposed Decline of size 6.5 m X 4.5 m size at 80 inclinations from surface for flexible movement of all trackless diesel equipment. Proposed Vertical shaft of 5 m finished diameter up to a depth of 500 m from surface. Vertical shaft will be concrete lined for entire depth and connected to the various levels. 3.5.3.5 Underground Layout The proposed mine is accessed by 80 decline and a vertical shaft. Horizontal cut & fill method will be adopted for exploitation of ore and same is proposed to be continued in near future. During shaft sinking 30000 tons of waste will be generated.

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3.5.3.5.1 Method and sequence of stoping The proposed sequence of operation at Jajwal project for the horizontal cut and fill method are as follows:

 The ore drive, approximately 5.5 m X 4.5 m would be developed along the footwall contact from one end of the proposed stope block to other end along the strike. Often each stope is a distinct ore lens and the above development of ore drive establishes the length and behaviour of the ore body at the level. Ore drives would be developed in similar manner at the upper and the lower levels.  The ore drives as developed above would be widened to expose the hang wall subject to a maximum width of 10.5 m. Above this width regular 4 m X 4 m pillars would be left in the dip direction systematically. This establishes the exact width of the ore body in the proposed stope block.  The drift along the strike and in footwall rock approximately 20 m to 40 m away from footwall contact of the ore body would be developed. This follows the development of the ore drive maintaining a lag of about 50 m. This is done to provide permanent access to the level and serves as the hauling roadway as the ore drives get filled on commencement of stoping operations.  At both extremities of the proposed stoping block, raises would be put up to connect the lower level to the upper level.  A ramp would be developed in ore/footwall rock either from upper level to lowerlevel or from lower level to upper level or a combination of the two to provide access for the trackless equipments like Jumbos & LHDs to the stope.  The back of the ore drive would be stripped up to a height of 5 m to provide access to Physics and Geology personnel to establish the vertical geometry of the ore body. The above completes the development and stoping commences by cyclic slicing and filling. This progresses from the lower level to the upper level.

3.5.3.6 Drilling and Blasting The proposed Jajwal project would be a mechanized hard rock mine, where excavation of rock would be done by breaking it by conventional drilling and blasting method. There are two types of blasting practiced in UCIL: Inverted ‘V’ pattern for slice blasting at stopes and burn cut pattern for development headings. Blasting will be carried out at the end of shift. Emulsion explosive will be used with short action detonators (millisecond delay detonators). 3.5.3.8 Mine ventilation The mine will be ventilated by 2 nos. axial flow main fans each of 220 m3/sec. capacity. These fans will be installed at the mouth of east and west ventilation shaft. All fans will jointly take out air from underground. The raises, drives will form the return air path for

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Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. Jajawal Uranium Project ventilating circuit. Fresh air from surface will enter the mine through the main vertical shaft and decline. Intake air will be distributed to each level through these decline and shaft as per requirement. All working stopes have separate intake and return paths. Intake air enters the working through the access X­cut / ramps and ventilates the face and the exhaust air pass the stope raise located at the stope boundary. The stope raises will be connected to the main fans by a system of end raises and ventilation drives. Since fresh air is taken to the level first, the mine workers work in fresh air. The blind headings will be ventilated by auxiliary fans whenever necessary. Air from auxiliary fans will be taken to the working face by means of ventilation duct. Ducts of different sizes would be used depending upon the requirement. Ventilation doors, stopping and regulators would also be used in underground for proper coursing the ventilating air. The total designed capacity of the 2 main fans i.e. 415 m3/sec. The actual ventilation network and arrangement shall be designed after study by consultant. Mine de-watering Adequate capacity of pumping arrangement will be installed. As the mine will be deepened, multi stage pumping shall be required.

ORE PROCESSING PLANT A process plant based on acid leaching route with a capacity to process 450 tonnes of ore per day is planned in the vicinity of the captive mine to extract the final product as uranium peroxide. The skid mounted equipment will be installed with maximum possible extent, facilitating it transportable. The plant shall receive ore of (4”­5”) size through conveyors from the mine. It is envisaged to have a jaw crusher/sizer at mine outlet to crush the ore to the desired size. Crushed ore will be fed to a scalper screen followed by cone crusher with recycle. Crushed ore will be ground to 60 % ­200 % in a ball mill. Fine ore bunkers to store one­day requirement shall be provided ahead of wet grinding circuit. Dust Extraction system will be an integral unit of the crushing facility. As of now, conventional close circuit grinding circuit of 450 tpd capacity has been considered consisting of jaw crusher, cone crusher, ball mill and single stage hydro­cyclones with subsequent density control and water recycle through high rate thickeners and horizontal belt / disc filters to ensure water recycle for proper feed density to leaching circuit. However, laboratory scale studies will be carried out to establish the techno commercial feasibility of using SAG mill with suitable modification in the size reduction unit for its adoption on preference because of economics. Sulphuric acid leaching will be carried out in multiple mechanically agitated open tanks/horizontal partitioned cigar type at 0 elevated temperature of 60­80 C in the presence of a suitable oxidant (MnO2).Gas fired/oil fired boilers shall be installed to generate steam for direct heating during leaching.

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Uranium rich liquor will be separated from the leached slurry in horizontal belt filter with counter current washing and further clarified using a clarifier(pre­ coat filter) to make it fit for processing in columnar fixed bed ion exchange units. Eluex process has been envisaged to be used for purification and concentration of uranium value. This includes elution by

H2SO4 followed by solvent extraction using suitable anionic extractant for purification of the eluted solution. Thus iron gypsum separation is not envisaged in the present system. Uranium peroxide shall be precipitated out from the upgraded and purified uranium liquor coming out from solvent extraction unit by addition of hydrogen peroxide and ammonium hydroxide solution in controlled process condition. The product peroxide slurry after thickening and washing in horizontal belt filter shall be dried to 600oC either in a rotary tunnel dryer in a single stage. The discharge cake of leach belt filters shall be re­pulped with the lean barren liquor of ion exchange and solvent extraction raffinate and neutralised with milk of lime to neutral pH in mechanically agitated tanks. Coarser particles shall then be separated out in the hydrocyclones and transferred to the mines for using as back­fill. Tailings Disposal facility The remaining finer solid fraction of hydro­cyclone will be concentrated in a thickener and filtered in a pressure filter. The dry tailing is envisaged to be disposed in multiple polymer lined secured landfill solid waste disposal facility (shallow trenches) within plant premises and later covered with plastic. Each such facility will be planned for 5 years life, where after it will be contained/ covered as per AERB guidelines. Effluent Treatment Filtrate from pressure filter, extraction raffinate, barren aqueous from ion exchange column along with excess mine water, after primary chemical treatment to fix and remove heavy metals and radio activity, shall be treated in ultrafiltration cum RO unit to generate about40­50% of the incoming volume as industrial water for reuse. Facility will be constructed for solar evaporation of the rejects of RO along with parallel arrangement of its transfer to ETP. Additional requirement of industrial and drinking water shall be met from existing water resources (Janwar Nala)with permission from the state government.

List of Equipments Sr. No. Equipment name 1 Jaw crusher/Sizer 2 Standard Head Cone Crusher 3 Screen(single deck/double deck) 4 Grinding Circuit (SAG/Ball mill) 5 Hydro cyclone 6 Neutral High Rate Thickener

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7 Neutral Filter (Disc/Belt filter) 8 Leaching Tanks (CSTR/partitioned cigar type reactors) 9 Leached pulp filter (Horizontal Belt Filter) 10 Precoat filter (drum filter) 11 Ion Exchange system 12 Solvent extraction system (mixer settlers) 13 Precipitation Tanks 14 Product thickener 15 Product belt filter 16 Pressure filter 17 Boiler 18 compressor 19 Tunnel dryer 20 Bag filters 21 Packing system 22 Automatic weighing & sampling system 23 Neutralization Tank 24 Dust Extraction system 25 Agitated Tanks 26 Non agitated tanks 27 Conveyer belts

Mineral Transport

Ore will be transported to new ore processing plant adjacent to the mine

3.5.8 Life of the Project

Life of the will be twenty years from zero date.

3.6 RAW MATERIALS

The major raw materials required (TPA) for the proposed ore processing plant is tabulated in the table given below:

Sr. Quantity in Raw Materials No. (TPA) 1 Sulphuric Acid (98%) 7590 2 Manganese dioxide (55%) 2727 3 Flocculating Agent 12 4 Sodium Hydroxide 37 5 Hydrogen peroxide 13 5 Guar Gum 21 6 Lime/Hydrated Lime 9900 7 Barium Hydroxide 6

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8 Furnace Oil 1650 9 Precoat Filter aid 221 10 Kerosene/ dodecanal 20 11 Extractant 3

3.7 RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION / RECYCLING AND RESOURCE About 500 m3/d of water will be discharged from the mine. Mine discharge water will be fully reused in industrial operation.

3.8 SITE SERVICES 3.8.1 Water Requirement: Industrial water requirement for the new project is estimated at 1000 m3/day. This requirement would be met by utilizing treated mine discharge water (500 m3/day) and fresh water of 500 m3/day drawn from Janawar Nala and Mahan river. 3.8.2 Power Requirement The proposed power consumption will be 7.5 MW The power shall be supplied by Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board (JSEB). 3.8.3 Amenities Jajwal will be a new mine with a sound infrastructure. The following facilities have been proposed.

1. Canteen 2. Pit head baths 3. Locker Room for workers 4. Cloth washing facility 5. Shelter 6. Vocational Training centre 7. First aid centre 8. Environmental Surveillance facility Small township and hospital will be constructed for employees.

3.9 WASTES Total 0.840000 million tons of waste rock will be generated during project. Mining operation will generate 0.810 million tons and shaft sinking 0.03 million ton waste.

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Ore processing plant will generate tailing: 0.135000 million TPA, ETP sludge: 90 TPA and Other solid waste: 15 TPA. About 95 % of waste rock will be used for stowing in underground. Total 0.0705 million tonnes of waste rock will be brought to surface. Tailing and other solid waste will be disposed in secured land fill system. 4.0 SITE ANALYSIS Since the project envisages an underground mine and ore processing complex and mining is a site specific activity guided by deposit geology, the question of any alternate site does not arise. 4.1 CONNECTIVITY Refer clause 3.1 and 3.2 4.2 LAND FORM, LAND USE, OWNERSHIP The leasehold area consists of protected forest, private and government land 4.3 TOPOGRAPHY The area has a general elevation of 500 meters above Mean Sea Level (MSL) with a moderate relief marked by East­West trending hill ranges having a maximum elevation of 600 meters above MSL. The site falls in a seismic zone of category II. Natural drainage is structurally controlled. Drainage pattern is sub­ dendritic to trellis, where rivulets/gullies, originating from the southern linear ridges, drain into the west flowing Janawar nala. Janwar nala is perennial and drains into Mahan River, a tributary of Rihand River. The area rarely experiences flood. Flash floods caused by the occasional heavy rainfall shall not affect the mining activity as it is situated well above the HFL. Heap leaching facilities is to be designed to withstand the occasional flash flood. Water flowing down the slopes during such rainfall is almost immediately drained to Janwar nala. Mahan River poses no danger as the site is separated by high linear E ­ W ridges (spread over a stretch of 10 km) of granitoids and gneisses. 4.5 EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE During exploratory mining operations of AMD, electricity was obtained from MPSEB (now CSEB) and also with the help of generators. During mining operation several pumps were installed at nearby wells for water supply. Refer Clause 3.8.3 above 4.6 SOIL CLASSIFICATION Granitic soils due to presence of basement rock and yellow soil of Gondwana rock are observed in Jajawal­Anjani area

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4.7 CLIMATE The area enjoys a subtropical climate characterized by hot summer and monsoon rainfall, followed by dry and cold winter season. It experiences an average annual rainfall of 1366.52 mm. Rainfall is high during the months of June to September. Average annual temperature varies from 25° to 30°C. Average highest maximum temperature of the area is 33.9°C while average mini mum temperature is 14.1°C.

4.8 SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AVAILABLE: The mine is located in a rural area. The nearest town is Pratappur about 25 km from the project area, which has all necessary social infrastructure facilities.

5.0 PLANNING BRIEF: 5.1 PLANNING CONCEPT: The entire infrastructure will be required for the new project. All the machineries also need to be available. The proposed capacity of the project, i.e 0.135 million TPA shall be attained after the receipt of necessary statutory clearances.

5.2 LAND USE PLANNING: When the reserves are exhausted, the mine will be shut down as per the Approved Mine Closure Plan. Some of the infrastructure will be dismantled. Others will be handed over to the State Government or the local village panchayats. The waste dumps will be stabilized and biological reclaimed.

5.3 ASSESSMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEMAND Most of the infrastructure such as Mine Office, surface material handling plant, electrical sub­station, stores, explosive magazine, workshop, weigh bridge, rest shelter, canteen, vocational training centre, medical unit etc. will be constructed in project. Some of these such as surface material handling plant, explosive magazine and workshop will have to be expanded to cater to increased excavation and handling of ore. 5.4 AMENITIES / FACILITIES All necessary amenities such as rest shelters, canteens, pit head baths, vocational training centre etc. are proposed for the project.

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6.0 PROPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE: As mentioned earlier, the new Jajawal project will start after receipt of all clearances. The following infrastructure is proposed for the project.

1. Compressor House and Compressors 2. Electric Sub Station and Power distribution net work 3. Surface workshops 4. Main Ventilation system 5. Explosive Magazine 6. Lamp Room 7. Time Office 8. Canteen 9. Pit head baths & Locker Room for workers 10. Office complex. 11. CR&D 12. Substation 13. Training centre. 14. Effluent treatment plant 15. Sewage treatment 16. Secured land fills disposal facility. 17. Roads 18. WTP 19. Environmental Surveillance facility

7.0 REHABILITATION & RESETTLEMENT (R&R) PLAN: The proposed Jajawal project will start after receipt of all clearances. The proposed project will envisage leasing and / or acquisition of land. Accordingly, the rehabilitation & resettlement plan would be applied as per LARR Act 2013.

8.0 PROJECT SCHEDULE & COST ESTIMATE About 3 years shall be required for commissioning of the project after approvals. The total cost estimate is about 700 crores.

8.1 LIKELY DATE OF START OF CONSTRUCTION AND LIKELY DATE OF COMPLETION: The project shall start immediately after approvals and shall take about 3 years for completion.

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8.2 ESTIMATED PROJECT COST ALONG AND ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF THE PROJECT The total estimated project cost will be 700 crores which involves construction of necessary infrastructure.

9.0 ANALYSIS OF PROPOSAL (FINAL RECOMMENDATION) The proposed Jajwal Uranium project will have the following benefits:

 Improve supply of indigenous uranium ore and thereby increase supply of fuel for India’s nuclear programme.  Generate direct as well as indirect employment.  Pave way for further peripheral development.  The project will generate direct and indirect employment. Peripheral development by UCIL will benefit local villagers.

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